Thank you for taking the time to meet our falcons. Please take a moment to consider supporting our falcons’ food supply. Thank you for your generosity! Our Black Gyrfalcon information and images are being updated. Adoption for the Black Gyr is available here.
| Black Gyrfalcon: Falco rusticolus DOB:2008 Sex: Female Weight: 50oz Wingspan:40 inOur black female gyrfalcon arrived in February 2024. She had been part of a large breeding project for many years but was hand-raised by people and flown in falconry for the first part of her life. Her gorgeous color is a morph that is native exclusively to the black, volcanic cliffs of Labrador, Canada. |
Peregrine falcon: Falco peregrinus
|
Merlin: Falco columbarius
|
| Prairie Falcon: Falco mexicanus DOB: 2013 Sex: Male Weight: 16 oz Wingspan: 30 in. Our male prairie falcon came from to us from our colleagues at the Montana Raptor Conservation Center in Bozeman, Montana. He was found in the summer of 2013, probably just a few weeks after fledging, with a badly-fractured left humerus. Despite extensive medical care, his wing is frozen at the elbow and wrist joints and has very little extension from his body. |
| American Kestrel: Falco sparverius DOB: Unknown Sex: Female Weight: 4.7 oz. Wingspan: 18 in.Our female kestrel was found in 2012 in Odessa, Nebraska, along the main street of this small town. She had sustained a fracture of her left humerus, close to her shoulder, and by the time she was brought to Raptor Recovery Nebraska in Elmwood, too much calcification had occurred to restore normal function and motion in her wing. She is partially-flighted, and arrived at REF in January 2013. |
| American Kestrel: Falco sparverius DOB: Unknown Sex: Male Weight: 3.5 oz. Wingspan: 18 inOur male kestrel came to us in April 2015 from Liberty Wildlife Rehabilitation Foundation in Scottsdale, AZ. He was found on the ground in Phoenix the previous December, having sustained a compound fracture of his right elbow. Because some of the bone had already begun to die, surgery and removal of that bone was the only way to save his life, but it did compromise the elbow joint, and affected his flight. He is partially-flighted and lives with our female kestrel and male merlin. |
| Eurasian/Common Kestrel: Falco tinnunculus DOB: 2013 Sex: F Weight: 8.5 oz Wingspan: 28 in Our Eurasian or “Common” kestrel, is anything but common. She is the only raptor we care for which is not native to North America. Though similar in appearance to the American kestrel, she is twice as large. Originally bred in captivity here in the US for falconry, she was donated to us in 2017 by a falconer who was moving to a very cold climate and didn’t believe the environment would be suitable for flying. |